OpenSTA (Open System Testing Architecture) is a distributed software
testing architecture designed around CORBA which was originally
developed to be commercial software by
CYRANO.
The toolset has the capability of performing scripted HTTP and HTTPS heavy
load tests with performance measurements. But the architectural design
means it could be capable of much more.

OpenSTA has been developed under and for Windows NT4 and 2000 in
C++. The initial long term aim was to make the OpenSTA environment
totally platform independent, with the current code base this is probably
not a reasonable expectation anytime soon. The best way forward towards
platform independence would probably be to develop code that interoperates
with that of the current project.

The released source has been licensed under the GNU General Public License.
OpenSTA follows the same version numbering as many other open source
projects, with an odd minor version indicating a developer, or unstable,
release. The initially posted version was designated 0.9.0. The decision for
this original release to be a developer one was made simply because of
the lack of widespread testing outside the CYRANO labs. The current
stable release that followed this was designated 1.0.0. After some
rest and bug fix releases of this 1.0 series, a 1.1.0 release and code
branch for the 1.1 developer series was created. This practice has
continued and currently the latest developer series was 1.3 (now frozen, 1.5
may appear sometime given some developer enthusiasm) and a stable(ish) 1.4
series.

For further details of the capabilities and use of the OpenSTA
environment, including user documentation and installable downloads,
please visit
http://opensta.org/, the OpenSTA end user
site.

The current team of developers working on OpenSTA encourages anyone
interested in making this distributed testing environment their
product of choice to
contribute.
Report any
bugs,
suggest any enhancements, documentation improvements, and by all means
download
the source, and submit any changes. We look
forward to helping you build the product you desire
:-)